106 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
tained a few new subscribers, and made 
some collections on account of my work.’”? 
His son Victor wrote desiring the 
presence of his father in England, and on 
April 16, we find him with his wife and 
son John, again embarked for Liverpool. 
In due time they are in London where 
they find Victor well, and the business of 
publication going on prosperously. One 
of the amusing incidents of this sojourn, 
narrated in the diaries, is Audubon’s and 
his son’s interview with the Baron Roth- 
schild, to whom he had a letter of intro- 
duction from a distinguished American 
banking house. The Baron was not 
present when they entered his private 
office, but “‘soon a corpulent man ap- 
peared, hitching up his trousers, and a 
face red with the exertion of walking, 
and without noticing anyone present, 
dropped his fat body into a comfortable 
chair, as if caring for no one else in this 
wide world but himself. While the 
Baron sat, we stood, with our hats held 
